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Roosa Söderholm wins Canneseries award for Kylmä kausi

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Roosa Söderholm wins Canneseries award for Kylmä kausi
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  • Roosa Söderholm won the Best Performance award at Canneseries 2026 for her lead role in the Yle series 'Kylmä kausi'.
  • 'Kylmä kausi' is a psychological drama thriller available on Yle Areena, where Söderholm plays a Finnish ski team underdog.
  • 'Svärtan' is a coming-of-age thriller set in the Stockholm archipelago in 1985, with music by Jonas Wikstrand and script by Amy Deasismont.

Finnish actress Roosa Söderholm, 31, won the Best Performance award at the Canneseries 2026 festival in Cannes, France, for her lead role in Yle's series 'Kylmä kausi', according to reports. In the series, a psychological drama thriller available on Yle Areena, Söderholm plays Anna Kilpi, an underdog of the Finnish ski team who gets to train with ski queen Maria Laukka (played by Sannah Nedergård), according to reports. For the series 'Svärtan', a coming-of-age thriller based on John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel 'Sommaren 1985', the music is composed by Jonas Wikstrand, who also wrote the music for the SVT series 'Whiskey on the Rocks', according to reports.

According to reports, 'Svärtan' is set in the Stockholm archipelago during the Live Aid summer of 1985, with Björn Stein as conceptual director and Amy Deasismont responsible for the script.

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